Blogging Ottinger (tim)Hot Stuff - What to do with sauces & relishes.
I got a little creative this week. I still have a lot of the “mean green” sauce that I made quite a while back. It’s only problem is that it was made with far too much onion to be a good general hot sauce, and I’d been using it as a marinade (with good success, esp on pork). It finally dawned on me the other day to mix it with plain yellow mustard. The result is one very, very good hot dog sauce.
Today I was munching on cheese spread & crackers when I realized that it needed more “bite”. I have plenty of bite stashed away, and my wife recommended I try the pepper relish. I’ve been half-afraid of using it, and it’s not mellowed since it was made originally. I tried it directly on hot dogs, and I’ve mixed it into salsa, but was wondering what to do with it as well. This stuff is soooo good in cheese spread. The cheese spread mellowed the heat, and bleneded nice. I think that I’ll have to start making some kind of cheese dip with it for parties in the future.
The downer of the day is Blair’s mild green jalapeno sauce. They should just call it a green garlic sauce. I was looking forward to jalapeno flavor, but didn’t get any noticeable flavor other than garlic. Now, if they sold it as a garlic sauce with a hint of pepper, I’d probably not complain. They didn’t and I did.
Where is smoking tongue? Is he still alive?
